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Show HAD LIQUOR FOR HIS MOTHER'S ATTACKS I OF NEURALGIA Glen Daniels, a 19-year-old bov ap peared this morning before Judg.' George S. Barker In the municipal court on a charge of having liquor unlawfully in his possession. He entered enter-ed a plea of guilty, which ordinarlh ; would require the defendant to pay a j fine of not less than $50 or to spend , not less than 30 days in jail. But the j boy was not required to do either. He I was given a 30-day suspended sentence. sen-tence. Although he was "caught with i tin goods ' the judgment of the court tempered with mercy for the south who had brought the liquor ! from Evanston, a pint bottle and a half pint bottle of whiskey, had not touched B drop of it himself, but was ! laking it home to his mother in Santa -quin so that when attacks of neuralgia 'seized her she could make a little toddy tod-dy to ease the pain. The young man stated that he had gone to Evanston to work on t ranch and was returning to his home j where work would now be open and he could be near Ms mother. He said the doctors had told "mother to take a little toddy when she had attacked attack-ed neuralgia" and he thought it would be fine to take a little home to her. He said he gave a brakeman 50 cents to let him ride on a freight train from Evanston and was going to the Bamberger Bam-berger station to get. a train to Salt Lake where he would transfer to one : for home when he was arrested. The J officers took him into custody about 3 I o'clock this morning and found the liquor liq-uor on his person. |